The main objective of this dashboard is to explore a potential relationship/association between the Gross Domestic Product per capita and the under-5 Child Mortality Rate (CMR) per 1000 live births, worldwide.
The data used for this analysis originate from the Gapminder Foundation website available here. Two indicators were selected for this analysis, including the GDP per capita and child mortality (0-5 year-olds dying per 1000 born). We limited our analysis to the year 2023, expecting to have the most recently updated figures.
In the following page, we analyse the GDP indicator, highlighting the countries with the highest and lowest GDP as well as the mean GDP for the year 2023. In addition, we present a map showing the worldwide distribution of GDP in 2023 and a bar plot depicting the top 20 countries exhibiting the lowest GDP.
The next page is dedicated to child mortality analysis. We also highlight the countries with the highest and lowest CMR as well as the mean CMR for the year 2023. Subsequently, we present a map illustrating the worldwide distribution of CMR in 2023, and present the top 20 countries with the highest CMR.
In the fourth page, we concentrate on countries that have already met the SDG 3.2 target requesting that countries must bring their CMR to not much than 25/1000 live births by the year 2030. Using a map, we present the countries that have already met the target worldwide, and using a bar plot, we put light on African countries that have met the target.
The fifth page explores the relationship between GDP and CMR using a scatter plot.
The last page presents the final/compiled dataset that was used for this analysis.
Highest GDP per capita in 2023
218000
MonacoLowest GDP per capita in 2023
354
South Sudan
Average GDP per capita in 2023
22387.4
Majority of African, South-East Asian and Latin American countries have low GDP.
Sixteen of the 20 countries with the lowest GDP reside in Afrca while the four others are in Asia.
Lowest Child Mortality Rate in 2023
1
FinlandHighest Child Mortality Rate in 2023
110
SomaliaAverage Child Mortality Rate in 2023
23.7
Nineteen of these countries are in Africa, except from Pakistan (Asia).
A total of 133 countries have already met the SDG 3.2 target as of 2023, requiring that each country should bring its under-5 CMR to not much than 25 per 1000 live births by the year 2030. Worrisome, only 8 of the 54 African countries have already met this target. There is still a lot to be done within the seven years remaining to reach the SDG end-point year of 2030.
Almost all of the 8 African countries that have met the SDG 3.2 target are located in the Northern part of the continent. Cabo Verde is the only sub-Saharan African country that has met this target as of 2023.
The plot speaks in favor of a likely strong and negative relationship between the GDP and under-5 CMR. Hence, countries with higher GDP tend to have lower CMR and those with lower GDP tend to have higher CMR. Although this has to be confirmed through binary analysis, we anticipate that improving the country’s GDP would lead to an important reduction in the under-5 CMR.
Actually, when opposing the top 20 countries with the lowest GDP to the top 20 countries with the worst CMR, we observe that 10 countries share both characteristics, including (from the worst CMR): Somalia, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Intriguingly, all of these countries are located in sub-Saharan Africa.
| country | GDP | country_code | child_mortality | continent |
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